Seismologists at the U.S. Geological Survey reported a magnitude 3.1 earthquake near Morristown on Sunday evening.

The tremor occurred at 6:32 p.m. at a depth of about 13.5 miles, according to the USGS. The epicenter was thought to be near the Grainger-Hamblen county line, northwest of Morristown and southwest of Bean Station.

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Morristown residents on social media reported feeling their homes shake. Residents of Rutledge, Russellville and Jefferson City also said they felt or heard the quake.

No damage was reported to the USGS.

Roughly 900,000 low-magnitude earthquakes — quakes with less than a 3.0 magnitude — occur each year, according to seismographers at Michigan Technical University. Those quakes are typically only felt by people close to the epicenter.

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Such tremors are common in East Tennessee. The seismic zone — which stretches into northwestern Georgia and northeastern Alabama — is one of the most active earthquake areas in the Southeast, but it has not experienced a large quake, according to the USGS.

The largest known earthquake in the region was a magnitude 4.6 quake that occurred on April 29, 2003, near Fort Payne, Alabama, according to the USGS. A magnitude 4.0 earthquake in the eastern U.S. can be felt as far as 60 miles from the epicenter.

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Most earthquakes that cause serious damage fall between 6 and 8 on the 9-point Richter scale.